Lindacoin Cold Hot Masternode Setup Guide

Linda Coin Cold/Hot Masternode Setup Guide

This detailed guide is made for the Linda community and will lead you how to setup a Hot (Linux) & Cold (Windows) Masternode. If you need any help, feel free to join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/SHNjQBv

Before you start

We refer to Hot wallet as the Masternode that is running on the VPS. We call it hot because it’s directly accessible on port TCP 33820 for 24/7 and much vulnerable than the Cold wallet. The hot wallet has a balance of zero coins and this will stay zero forever. If you follow this guide you don't need to configure port forwarding on the VPS

We refer to Cold wallet as the Windows QT software that’s installed on your home PC, safe behind a firewall. This Linda wallet contains the 2M coins for the Masternode. This wallet doesn’t need to be only 24/7 with a static IP address. Don’t stake the wallet with the 2M coins in, it will cause the coins to split and disable your masternode

All masternode payouts will come in your cold wallet (even when it isn’t online)

In this guide you will find some lines of text you have to copy, it has a dot in front of it, you can copy all the text in once. The dots won't be copied

Follow all provide steps exactly & read the guide first before starting

Why do you need a VPS for the masternode?

The masternode needs to be online 24/7 with low latency

A static IP address is required

You need some IT knowledge (port forwarding, firewall rules, networking...) if you run the masternode at home

Security! Every IP can be traced, if you run a masternode at home you can become an easily target for criminals (they know you have cryptocurrency)

This script will install the Linda software. After some time you will be asked for your private key (this is your earlier generated masternode genkey), when you have copied this key you can right-click in Putty to paste it. Press enter to continue.

When the installation is completed:

You have downloaded the bootstrap files earlier, if they aren’t extracted to a new folder on your desktop you can do it now

File – Site Manager, click on “New Site” and fill in the details & click on OK. In host you fill in your Vultr IP address and use SFTP as protocol & save. You can connect to your VPS now.

Host: Your VPS IP address

Protocol: SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol

Port: Leave empty

Logon Type: Normal

User: root

Password: Your VPS password

On the left side: navigate to the folder where you have extracted the bootstrap

On your right: double click on ".Linda"

Select all files (database folder, txleveldb, blk0001.dat, peers.dat) and right click & upload. You will get a popup, select "Overwrite" & "Always use this action" in combination with "Apply to currenct queue only" & click OK.

Now you have to wait untill all files are transfered (time this takes is fully depending on your uploadspeed). When this is finished perform in your VPS:

Let it sync for a couple of minutes to be sure that everything is running & synced

Go to Help – Debug Window – Console and perform “masternode start-many”. You should get: "Successfully started 1 masternodes..."

Extra validation step

Go to your VPS and perform "Lindad masternode start". If you get masternode started remotely you masternode is running, congrats!

Your MN will appear in the list under “Masternodes” but this can take some time. It will also take around 1 hour for you MN to update it stats (so you will see around 1 hour: Active (secs): xxx).

Some more info

What happens if my VPS gets hacked?

Because of the Hot & Cold setup your coins are safe on your own PC, if people hack your VPS the only thing they can do is converting it for their self (but they need 2M coins for that) or shutting your VPS down... So, this isn’t a big deal...

Do I need to backup my wallets?

If you followed this guide you don’t have to backup your VPS wallet, but you have to backup your Cold wallet 3 times and to be sure: encrypt it!! Safe every copy on different safe places.

What is different if my Cold wallet is on Mac?

Not much, only the location of your backend files (appdata), for the rest it’s all the same.

Who made this guide?

I’m NerdyUser, IT dude from Belgium and you can find me in the official Linda discord! You can also follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/MrNerdyUser).

A donation will be appreciated
Linda address: LXFo7eDPL3cAgGbYXDq9gtenyX7LQQfptT